GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| ruddy | having a healthy reddish color |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| opulence | wealth |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |